Category: Congress
September 18, 2025
Congress
Nancy Mace and Cory Mills clash over failed censure vote
GOP Reps. Nancy Mace and Cory Mills are locked in an escalating personal clash over Mace’s failed effort to censure Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar for her response to the...
September 18, 2025
Congress
Capitol agenda: Democrats steer into a shutdown
Democrats are flirting with a shutdown. Their endgame is unclear. Democrats are rallying around a hard-line approach to try to bring Republicans to the table to strike a government...
September 18, 2025
Congress
Democrats’ shutdown endgame is sketchy as deadline looms
Party leaders hope a new offer will spark negotiations. That’s about as far as the plan goes.
September 17, 2025
Congress
Democrats unveil funding alternative to counter GOP in shutdown brawl
Preparing to tank the Republican plan to avert a funding lapse on Oct. 1, Democrats are offering their own proposal.
September 17, 2025
Congress
How 1 bureaucrat’s retirement could give Donald Trump new sway over Congress
The comptroller general of the Government Accountability office will step down in a few short months, leaving a void atop the agency that has found the White House guilty...
September 17, 2025
Congress
GOP defections sink effort to censure Rep. Ilhan Omar
Several Republicans joined all House Democrats in voting to sink a GOP-led measure to formally condemn Rep. Ilhan Omar and remove her from her committees. The 214-213 vote ended...
September 17, 2025
Congress
Kash Patel doubles down on his handling of the Epstein files in heated Hill testimony
The FBI director took oncoming during two days of oversight hearings on Capitol Hill.
September 17, 2025
Congress
House eyes Friday vote on stopgap as partisan tensions flare
GOP leaders believe they will need to heed the chamber’s 72-hour-review rule.
September 17, 2025
Congress
Kash Patel says court orders bar him from releasing the Epstein files. Judges have said otherwise.
FBI Director Kash Patel claimed Wednesday that he is barred by recent court orders from releasing thousands of documents connected to disgraced sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. “I’m not going...
September 17, 2025
Congress
Jim Jordan goes after Adam Schiff at FBI oversight hearing
House Judiciary Chair Jim Jordan on Wednesday opened FBI Director Kash Patel’s second Congressional oversight hearing in two days by going after a former colleague, Sen. Adam Schiff. "Why...